Love on the Block

Authors: Max Dovey

Keywords: Marriage, Immutability, Promotion, Liberatarianism

First 100 words: ‘For better or worse, till death do us part, because the blockchain is forever.' Wedding Vows of David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo For many, using bitcoin to officiate a marriage sounds as romantic as a first date outside a high street bank, but the various ways in which people are developing bitcoin, blockchain and cryptography to encapsulate love and administrate civic arrangements, such as marriage, reveal a deeper devotion towards blockchain technology as the new church and state. Since the first bitcoin marriage ceremony in 2014, couples have continued to express their love on the blockchain and adapt the marital…